[zfs-discuss] booting from ashift=12 pool..

2011-07-28 Thread Daniel Carosone
.. evidently doesn't work. GRUB reboots the machine moments after loading stage2, and doesn't recognise the fstype when examining the disk loaded from an alernate source. This is with SX-151. Here's hoping a future version (with grub2?) resolves this, as well as lets us boot from raidz. Just a

Re: [zfs-discuss] booting from ashift=12 pool..

2011-07-29 Thread Hans Rosenfeld
On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 01:04:49AM -0400, Daniel Carosone wrote: > .. evidently doesn't work. GRUB reboots the machine moments after > loading stage2, and doesn't recognise the fstype when examining the > disk loaded from an alernate source. > > This is with SX-151. Here's hoping a future versio

Re: [zfs-discuss] booting from ashift=12 pool..

2011-07-29 Thread Fajar A. Nugraha
On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 4:57 PM, Hans Rosenfeld wrote: > On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 01:04:49AM -0400, Daniel Carosone wrote: >> .. evidently doesn't work.  GRUB reboots the machine moments after >> loading stage2, and doesn't recognise the fstype when examining the >> disk loaded from an alernate sou

Re: [zfs-discuss] booting from ashift=12 pool..

2011-07-29 Thread Hans Rosenfeld
On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 10:22:27AM -0400, Fajar A. Nugraha wrote: > On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 4:57 PM, Hans Rosenfeld > wrote: > > I've noticed this behaviour this morning and have been debugging it > > since. I found out that, for some unknown reason, grub fails to get the > > disk geometry, assum

Re: [zfs-discuss] booting from ashift=12 pool..

2011-07-29 Thread Hans Rosenfeld
On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 04:36:33PM +0200, Hans Rosenfeld wrote: > > Does zfs code for grub/grub2 also depend on Oracle releasing > > updates, > > or is it simply a matter of no one with enough skill have looked > > into > > it yet? > > I'm working on a patch for grub that fixes the ashift=12 issue

Re: [zfs-discuss] booting from ashift=12 pool..

2011-07-31 Thread Daniel Carosone
On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 05:58:49PM +0200, Hans Rosenfeld wrote: > I'm working on a patch for grub that fixes the ashift=12 issue. Oh, great - and from the looks of the patch, for other values of 12 as well :) > I'm probably not going to fix the div-by-zero reboot. Fair enough, if it's an exist

Re: [zfs-discuss] booting from ashift=12 pool..

2011-07-31 Thread Daniel Carosone
On Mon, Aug 01, 2011 at 11:22:36AM +1000, Daniel Carosone wrote: > On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 05:58:49PM +0200, Hans Rosenfeld wrote: > > > I'm working on a patch for grub that fixes the ashift=12 issue. > > Oh, great - and from the looks of the patch, for other values of 12 as > well :) > > > I'm

Re: [zfs-discuss] booting from ashift=12 pool..

2011-08-01 Thread Hans Rosenfeld
On Mon, Aug 01, 2011 at 11:22:36AM +1000, Daniel Carosone wrote: > > If you want to try it, the patch can be found at > > http://cr.illumos.org/view/6qc99xkh/illumos-1303-webrev/illumos-1303-webrev.patch > > Any chance of providing an alternate stage1/stage2 binary I can feed > to installgrub? Wh

Re: [zfs-discuss] booting from ashift=12 pool..

2011-08-08 Thread Daniel Carosone
On Mon, Aug 01, 2011 at 01:25:35PM +1000, Daniel Carosone wrote: > To be clear, the system I was working on the other day is now running > with a normal ashift=9 pool, on a mirror of WD 2TB EARX. Not quite > what I was hoping for, but hopefully it will be OK; I won't have much > chance to mess wit

Re: [zfs-discuss] booting from ashift=12 pool..

2011-09-04 Thread Daniel Carosone
On Tue, Aug 09, 2011 at 10:51:37AM +1000, Daniel Carosone wrote: > On Mon, Aug 01, 2011 at 01:25:35PM +1000, Daniel Carosone wrote: > > To be clear, the system I was working on the other day is now running > > with a normal ashift=9 pool, on a mirror of WD 2TB EARX. Not quite > > what I was hoping

Re: [zfs-discuss] booting from ashift=12 pool..

2011-09-14 Thread Hans Rosenfeld
Hi, On Mon, Sep 05, 2011 at 02:18:48AM -0400, Daniel Carosone wrote: > I see via the issue tracker that there have been several updates > since, and an integration back into the main Illumos tree. How do I > go about getting hold of current boot blocks? The OpenIndiana release that was announce

Re: [zfs-discuss] booting from ashift=12 pool..

2011-09-14 Thread Daniel Carosone
On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 04:08:19PM +0200, Hans Rosenfeld wrote: > On Mon, Sep 05, 2011 at 02:18:48AM -0400, Daniel Carosone wrote: > > I see via the issue tracker that there have been several updates > > since, and an integration back into the main Illumos tree. How do I > > go about getting hold

Re: [zfs-discuss] booting from ashift=12 pool..

2011-09-15 Thread Hans Rosenfeld
On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 07:10:21PM -0400, Daniel Carosone wrote: > Yep, saw that and have it here ready to boot and install grub. I hope > the fact that the pool itself is v31 for zfs crypto will not be a > problem.. I doubt that works. IIRC the highest supported zpool and zfs versions are hardc